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 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 243, 244, 245. 1880. 287 supreme court of the District of Columbia shall be in any manner prejudiced by the provisions of this act. Approved, June 16, 1880. CHAP. 244.-An act for the relief of certain settlers on the public lends, and to June 16, 1880. provide for the repayment of certain fees, purchase money and commission paid on ···*···· ·—·— void entries of public lands. Be tt enacted by the Senate and House of Rqwresentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in all cases where it shall, Certain settlers upon due proof being made, appear to the satisfaction of the Secretary °¤ 1*****1*** l¤¤d¤· of the Interior that innocent parties have paid the fees and commissions and excess payments required upon the location of claims under the act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled ‘An act to enable houorably discharged soldiers and sailors, their widows and orphan children, to acquire homesteads on the public lands of the United States’, and amendments thereto", approved March third eighteen hundred and seventy- three, and now incorporated in section twenty-three hundred and six of R- S 2306 the Revised Statutes of the United States, which said claims were, after. R ‘° P f*>’{“$"."_‘ *";. such location, found to be fraudulent and void, and the entries or loca- °(:,,,'QTfQQ,(g:;Q, tions made thereon canceled, the Secretary of the interior is authorized and, (-mess payi to repay to such innocent parties the fees and commissions, and excess ¤¤¤M¤ ¤¤¤=¤·>¤· payments paid by them, upon the surrender of the receipts issued there- f"“‘td"]‘;‘_‘.“_ " " *1 for by the receivers of public moneys, out of any money in the Treasury v°X,;°; ,;:;,2},,,,,,,, not otherwise appropriated, and shall be payable out of the Zrp[)I'0p1`ltI.- pwneenent. ° gp; to refund purchase-money on lands erroneously sold by the United tes. Sec. 2. In all cases where homestead or timber-culture or desert-land Entri <> s <= a in - entries or other entries of public lands have heretofore or shall hereafter E"I"‘l ,{"`_ _"f"·, ""“{ be canceled for conflict or where, from any cause, the entry has been iN;; ,’,:,;{:;”*,;;‘°,Q§, erroneously allowed and cannot be contirmed, the Secretary of the Inte- east-s. rior shall cause to be repaid to the person who made such entry, or to his heirs or assigns, the fees and commissions, amount of purchase _ money, and excesses paid upon the same upon the surrender of the E>¢¤¢=S¤ 0i' $1-% duplicate receipt and the execution of a proper relinquishment of all };l‘§fI,l*$H’l» claims to said land, whenever such entry shall have been duly canceled 1,,,, ,1 nntp ,,,,,1,,,, by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and in all cases where mir-can gi-unt, to parties have paid double-minimum price for land which has afterwards be l'°P“·l‘l {0 1·¤¤‘— been found not to be within the limits of a railroad land grant, the ex- ggfffé M""' °" cess of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre shall in like manner be *’ ` repaid to the purchaser thereof, or to his heirs or assigns. Sec. 3. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to make the pay- A p propriaiion, ments herein provided for, out of any money in the Treasury not other- P¤"“¤¤°"’°- wise appropriated. Sec. 4. The Commissioner of the General Land Office shall make all Itules and regunecessary rules, and issue all necessary instructions, to carry the provis— {***10:;* W 3** ¤¤¤·£l** ions of this act into elfect; and for the repayment of the purchase money Sigue,  ,°h%"§Q,‘:j and fees herein provided for the Secretary of the Interior shall draw his ,,,,,1 LM,.] Omg., warrant on the Treasury and the same shall be paid without regard to the date of the cancellation of the entries. Approved, Jtme 16, 1880. CHAP. 24-5.-An act to t the State of Nevada lands in lieu of the sixteenth and June 16, 1880, Itrhliizysixth sections in said State. —--—;i·-·— Whereas, the legislature of the State of Nevada on March eighth, Preamble. eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, passed an act accepting from the United States a grant of two millions or more acres of landin lieu of the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections therein, and rehnquishing to the United States all such sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections in said State